Ilhan Omar Quotes

You can only watch injustice go on for so long until you're compelled to say something. To speak out against it.

Where I come from, if you see your family and friends' civil rights being taken away, you speak up and do everything you can to keep that from happening!

There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest.

If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor.

Wherever there was injustice, war, discrimination against women, gays and the disadvantaged, I did my best to show up and exert moral persuasion.

I am not the least bit surprised that injustice persists. I'm also not surprised that resistance to injustice persists.

I feel there are injustices in the world that I'll stand up for, and I think that it's important to realize that the world is filled with these kinds of issues.

Where there are breaches of human rights, you need to speak out about it, no matter where it is.

As the blowback against those who stand up for what is right thickens, I feel it is necessary to push forward with a relentless determination.

It's always important, when we experience injustice in this nation, that people in power understand that we will not take that injustice quietly.

Protest and anger practically always derives from hope, and the shouting out against injustice is always in the hope of those injustices being somewhat corrected and a little more justice established.

For as long as I can remember, I've always been interested in issues of social justice, political freedom, and civil rights.

But you know, the system almost destroyed itself while it was goin' on trying to destroy us.

The cry of the oppressed has entered not only into my ears, but into my soul, so that while I live, I cannot hold my peace.

I have lectured at the U.N. and travelled widely, giving lectures on human rights and gender inequalities in universities. But this is a life I do not wish to live. I don't want to be a showcase, I want to be in a battlefield where I can stand beside the oppressed and the poor.

I wish for you all, each of you, to have your own motive for indignation. This is precious. When something outrages you as I was outraged by Nazism, then people become militant, strong, and involved.

Silence is complicity. Speak now or surrender your ground.

No one who passively endures an injustice against himself has the material in him to struggle for the rights of others. The one who patiently forbears becomes an accessory to the injustice done to others. He who resists the injustice which he himself meets can open up the way to a higher right for others.

We must take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.

For we went, changing our country more often than our shoes In the class war, despairing When there was only injustice and no resistance

We will have demonstrations until the injustices that have caused them are eliminated.

Rebellion is the necessary result of injustice. It may not always achieve its purpose, or be intended to do so, but a conviction of injustice endured must precede articulate rebellion. Nor is it always certain that injustice will be followed by rebellion – it would be very much better for the world if this was the case. But where the victims of aggression or custom are ignorant and disunited, the opportunities for reasoned and effective revolt are practically reduced to nothing…

I'll continue fighting as long as these social injustices exist.

In our struggle against apartheid, the great supporters were Jewish people. They almost instinctively had to be on the side of the disenfranchised, of the voiceless ones, fighting injustice, oppression and evil.

I think history repeats itself. There's a constant conversation between the oppressed and the oppressor. No matter what your field is, whether it's gender equality, the Time's Up movement, or diversity casting, it's always going to be a back-and-forth battle.